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Three facts about Anzac Day

1. From a national population of under five million at the time, more than 400,000 Australians enlisted to serve in World War I.

2. The ANZACS were all volunteers, there was no conscription at the time.

3. Anzac biscuits were traditionally square, hard tack biscuits that many men were said to have broken their teeth on. It became one of the soldiers’ staple foods and could be ground down to make porridge, thicken a stew, fried as fritters and was even comically described to be used as souveniers that could be passed onto generations

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